RFR: 8016846: Pattern.splitAsStream tests required

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Henry,

I think you should sort out the issues you are having with jtreg.
It is not yet clear to me that this is a jtreg issue as much as a test 
or library issue.

-- Jon

On 08/20/2013 12:48 PM, Henry Jen wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 09:14 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 16/07/2013 12:05, Henry Jen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review the webrev at,
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/tl/8016846/0/webrev/
>>>
>>> The test is mostly contributed by Ben Evans.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Henry
>>>
>> It looks okay to me, just a concern that the tests for the regex API are
>> normally in test/java/util/regex.
>>
> We are using stream test framework on this to verify all style of stream
> works, with that we will need to have library on bootclasspath, and that
> current prevent us from put it in test/java/util/regex because of jtreg
> limitation.
>
> If no object, I'll push this at its current location. We can revisit
> this when jtreg support is available.
>
> The other alternative is that we refactor the test to test only split,
> and leave out the various style of stream checking. While we lose the
> sanity check, but I don't think we lose much as the form of iterator
> converted into stream and operated should have been covered in other
> stream tests.
>
> Let me know if we think it's important enough to refactor the test.
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>